At last month's European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), JDSU announced that it has brought the benefits of functional integration to a market segment that hasn't seen much innovation in the last decade: optical amplification. Leveraging JDSU's erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) capabilities, a breakthrough in planar lightwave circuit (PLC) technology, and the addition of several tunable components, the photonic integrated amplifier (PIA) platform is not only 50% smaller than currently available amplifiers, but it is also the industry's first reconfigurable optical amplifier, reports Craig Iwata, senior director of marketing and business operations at JDSU.
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